When1: 1499
Who: Thomas de Vio [Vio, Thomas de] or Cajetan
What: philosopher
Where: Milan, Italy
works\ Analogy of Names [1499]
Detail: He lived 1468 to 1534 and was Thomist and Dominican. By analogy, terms can be true of both God and finite things, because they have terms in differing proportions. Analogies can be about inequality, attributes, or proportion. Proportion is the only true analogy, because it is about same named thing in different amounts. The other two analogies compare different things.
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